After all the excitement that Gus had been through, he needed a day off, but he still needed to make money. So, Gus hired his friend Marcus to run the food bus for one day.
Early in the morning Gus opened the food bus and showed Marcus how to do everything, and then Gus went hiking on a trail that went up into the mountains.
It was a wonderful morning up in the mountains, the sky was blue and there was a gentle breeze. Gus truly enjoyed himself and spent some time just talking to God as he hiked the trails.
In the late afternoon Gus decided that he should head back to the food bus and help Marcus clean up at the end of the day. When Gus got to the food bus, he could not believe his eyes! There was no one in the food bus, and people were standing around wanting to buy food, but no one was in the bus to sell the food! Gus immediately went into the food bus and began to make food. The people were happy to see Gus, and they told him that the food bus had been closed most of the day, and they were very hungry!
Gus was mad! He had trusted Marcus to take care of all these people, sell food to them, and make some money! Marcus was undependable, he could not be trusted! Just as it began to get dark, Marcus wandered back to the food bus. He was very surprised to see Gus there, he had not expected Gus to come back until later. Gus fired Marcus and told him that he did not trust him anymore and would never ask him to work in the food bus again! Marcus did not have anything that he could say, he just walked away.
That night after Gus finally got food sold to all the hungry people and then closed the food bus, he had some time to sit still and think about the day. Gus was still very mad at Marcus, but with he tried his best to calm down and think about what God wanted him to learn today. Gus opened his Bible to the book of Matthew and found the parable about the faithful & the unfaithful servant.
Matthew 24:45-51
A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns. But what if the servant is evil and thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’ and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Gus remembered how he felt when Marcus did not do the job that Gus had given him. Gus realized that God probably feels like that when Christians act the way Marcus acted. Jesus is up in heaven now, and His followers are here on earth. As Gus had already learned; Christians are supposed to love God with all they have in them and love their neighbors as themselves. Someday Jesus is going to return and take the Christians out of this world, will He find us serving Him faithfully when He returns, or will He find that we are unfaithful and not serving Him?
Gus wrote in the Gus-Bus Eternal Journal:
Today I learned about the parable of the Faithful & Unfaithful Servant! If a person is really a Christian, their life should show it. They should be serving God by loving God first with everything they have in them and loving their neighbor (everyone around them). God help me to be a faithful servant to you! I can’t wait for the day when Jesus comes again!